republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5178.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Requiring car dealerships in this state to utilize a search engine to determine if buyers of vehicles have valid motor vehicle insurance.	Requiring car dealerships in this state to utilize a search engine to determine if buyers of vehicles have valid motor vehicle insurance.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5178	West Virginia HB 5178 (2024)	bill	Motor Vehicles	enacted	Hall, W.	5	39	3	2024-01-25	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/241d3056-b3b7-4a1f-b2be-1f10f715113b	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5178&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	39731902122a0cb85ffb5fa17490fd377b919e2a31a5bdd85fbb2484c57fd3fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5178 (2024) — Requiring car dealerships in this state to utilize a search engine to determine if buyers of vehicles have valid motor vehicle insurance.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. hb5178 sfa clements _1 2-28 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb5178 sfat clements _1 2-28 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hall, W. — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-01-25 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-25 To Banking and Insurance then Government Organization referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-25 To House Banking and Insurance referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-23 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-23 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-26 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed House (Roll No. 324) passage
• 2024-02-27 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-28 Committee reference dispensed
• 2024-02-28 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-29 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 On 3rd reading with right to amend
• 2024-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-01 Passed Senate (Roll No. 330) passage
• 2024-03-01 Title amendment adopted
• 2024-03-01 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-06 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-06 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 492)
• 2024-03-06 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-06 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-07 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-22 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 189, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/241d3056-b3b7-4a1f-b2be-1f10f715113b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).